The Elder Scrolls Online

[Xenich]

I swear, as the years go buy, it is like society has contracted a disease that is making them ridiculously stupid.

"Hey folks, its the new crazy addictive game out! You see, what you do is... touch your forehead to gain points... but don't worry if you don't touch it, you still gain the same points!" Brilliant, fucking BRILLIANT! Humanity needs a fucking bullet to the head! /sigh

 

[Minttunator]

Here's another key just in case anyone wants to try it: N6HERLWE4FX3WN7PRWXF

 

[Bahamut]

Meh this shit crashes on startup

 

[Commissar Draco]

Here's another key just in case anyone wants to try it: N6HERLWE4FX3WN7PRWXF

is this come with playable Imperials?

 

[Bubbles]

Which one of you is this?

I like to play Redguard because of the Lore behind them, but I really can't believe this game is forcing all Redguards to have a very SPECIFIC look (big lower lip, darker skin, african/black ethnicity hair choices). I always try to develop my characters around an idea or story I loved. The Redguard is basically nullified for me because of the lack of choices to allow for a person to create a non-ethnic looking Redguard.

 

[Jugashvili]

Which one of you is this?

I like to play Redguard because of the Lore behind them, but I really can't believe this game is forcing all Redguards to have a very SPECIFIC look (big lower lip, darker skin, african/black ethnicity hair choices). I always try to develop my characters around an idea or story I loved. The Redguard is basically nullified for me because of the lack of choices to allow for a person to create a non-ethnic looking Redguard.

He must be that crazy orc khajiit trapped in the body of an orc you meet in Ald Daedroth

 

[corvus]

Meh this shit crashes on startup

Maybe one of your mod plugins is missing a master? That's usually the cause of CTD's.

Uh, TESO can be modded, right?

 

[Mortmal]

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If anyone want to try , Its not nearly as bad as what i expected, if you like skyrim you will like this.Although the multiplayer part is questionable, so far i never had the need to interact with other players at all.

 

[Zed]

if you like skyrim you will like this

I like Skyrim but I hate this.

 

[Data4]

Link? I need to see the responses to that. I need to know that someone, some how was able to tell this person what a complete and total fucktard they are before the Princess Stomper effect kicked in. I need to know there's got to be a grain of sanity left in this world, however small it may be.

LOLEDIT Found it. I wish he was challenged more. I wanted to see if someone was going to take him to task and see if he was actually referring to shit like Better Bodies or some kind of Loverslab "fuck me in the ass with a nirnroot" kind of mod vs. standard MMO UI mods.

 

[Minttunator]

Here's another key just in case anyone wants to try it: N6HERLWE4FX3WN7PRWXF

is this come with playable Imperials?

Last I checked, you had to buy the Collector's Edition to be able to play Imperials. :D

 

[Commissar Draco]

Frack you Bethpizda than.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Caved in and tried to play it again this morning, fuck this shit is horrible. The UI, the look of the game... all of it screams CONSOLE. Its such a disappointment, not unexpected tho.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

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Wow. Just wow.
Though to be honest I'd expect the more weird looking races to receive such treatment, like why-can't-I-be-handsome-Orc/Hairless-Khajit/Feathered-Argonian.

 

[Tribal Sarah]

Slightly better looking version of Oblivion with added waifus. 200 MIRRION DORRARS.

 

[Lemming42]

Slightly better looking version of Oblivion with added waifus

Isn't that Skyrim?

 

[Mortmal]

Added waifus ? i think not , not seen any provided with the game . You will have to bring them yourselves or exchange your ring of mara with fellow codexers....

 

[mediocrepoet]

Loverslab "fuck me in the ass with a nirnroot" kind of mod.

Where can I get this!?

... a friend wants to know.

 

[Tribal Sarah]

Added waifus ? i think not , not seen any provided with the game . You will have to bring them yourselves or exchange your ring of mara with fellow codexers....

You pay onry 185 dorrars per year and you get potato face waifu girfrend. Pay 300 dorrars an get extra potato

 

[Menckenstein]

I love this game so much...

because it's going to tank and ruin Bethesda.

 

[Lerk]

Just played a few hours with a friend who gave me an invite, got to level 6 and Daggerfall before I could stomach no more. It's unbelievably bland. The UI, control scheme, and partitioned leveling areas are painfully obvious concessions to consoie limitations. Even more damaging than the tasteless lore-rape evident, is the complete lack of an open world. I could go on, and on, but I can feel the bile rising just thinking about it.

The best thing about it my entire time with it was John Cleese voicing the mad guy in Coldharbour. Is he really that hard up for money though? Oh, and it is well optimised. I couldn't believe this is the same engine powering TOR, sure it must've had a few upgrades since Bioware bought the Hero license. So there is that.

TL;DR: Shit Sandwich.

 

[bledcarrot]

I played most of yesterday. It's basically what I expected. It improves on Skyrim pretty much everywhere, in the UI, crafting, range of items, bosses etc. They've done a good job of making it easy to group up with strangers and it can be satisfying to take down difficult bosses with a couple of other people but multiplayer interaction seems pretty much limited to that. They've also done a good job balancing fast travel and respawn costs. Basically you can fast travel to any discovered waypoint shrines for 60 gold, but immediately after you've done so further fast travel costs 300 or something and ticks back down over time to the 60 again. When you die you can choose to respawn at the nearest waypoint (voiding the current quest/dungeon) and cop some durability damage to your equipped items (yes there is item degradation, another improvement over Skyrim), which you have to pay someone to repair, or you can choose to respawn where you are (mid dungeon or whatever) for the cost of a soul gem. All in all I think both of those are pretty good ways of punishing death and dealing with fast travel.

The biggest improvement by far is the UI, which feels much less console targeted. I really had few issues with it tbh. It's also a much more interesting world to explore, what I've seen so far. Not a snowflake in sight.

Overall I had some fun with it, but improvements aside it suffers from all the same problems as Skyrim, the big one being the spoon fed questing. There's just no satisfaction. That, coupled with the only multiplayer interaction really coming in the form of grouped battles, means it's not something I'd be paying month to month for. But judging from the reactions of other players, it's going to do very well.

 

[Lerk]

I enjoyed this...

They've also done a good job balancing fast travel and respawn costs. Basically you can fast travel to any discovered waypoint shrines for 60 gold, but immediately after you've done so further fast travel costs 300 or something and ticks back down over time to the 60 again. When you die you can choose to respawn at the nearest waypoint (voiding the current quest/dungeon) and cop some durability damage to your equipped items (yes there is item degradation, another improvement over Skyrim), which you have to pay someone to repair, or you can choose to respawn where you are (mid dungeon or whatever) for the cost of a soul gem. All in all I think both of those are pretty good ways of punishing death and dealing with fast travel.

...but then you went too far:

The biggest improvement by far is the UI, which feels much less console targeted.

 

[Avellion]

My brother is playing the beta out of sheer boredom (not that the thing helps solving his boredom in the slightest but whatever), and he has shared me a bit of cringeworthy stuff.

• There is an important mage or something named Cheesemonger... yeah cheesemonger.
• Daedric hearts are worth exactly 21 gold, just as much as common bones.
• Most quests have some sort of hint attached to them, no matter how painfully obvious it is.
• His character has never even touched cast a single spell, yet, he is a member of the mage's guild.
• Appearantly feedback on landing hits is really random, at times you will hear sounds indicating you hit something, sometimes the animals will even flinch a bit, sometimes it will look and sound like you just hit empty air, minus the fact that the enemy life bar went down.

 

[Lerk]

My redguard dragonknight could hit mobs BEHIND HIM with forward sword thrusts. Zenimax, solving the problems of controller targetting, one derp at a time.